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Examined changes in targeted and general tension behaviors as well as reductions in psychological tension associated with congnitive imagrery and electromyographic biofeedback relaxation procedures. Three groups of 15 female college students participated. During three weekly sessions each per son received either guided cognitive imagery relaxation, frontalis muscel feedback relaxation, or a self‐rest control procedure. The Anxiety Differential was administered before and after each session, while fronttial EMG, heart rate, and skin temperature were monitiored continuously. A second Tempererament Analysis was administered after the final session. The imagery procedure was associated with moderate reductions in physiological tension and significant reductions in state anxiety and three tension‐related personality dimensions. Self‐rest persons displayed lesser reductions in general tension with little psysiological change. While biofeedback persons showed the largest reductions in psysiological tensions, they displayed only small and variable changes in state anxiety and personality dimensions. The data raise continued questions about the applications of physiologically based operant relaxation procedures and support the use of cognitively mediated protocols for the treatment of specific or gereral anxiety behavirs.

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Visual field dependence in 292 multi-ethnic adult children of alcoholics (ACAs) and nonalcoholics (NACAs) was assessed, using the Hidden Figures Test (Ekstrom, French, & Harmon, 1976). There were no differences among ethnic groups, but ACAs achieved a significantly lower percentage of correct answers and more incorrect answers and attempted more questions relative to NACAs. These findings suggest that ACAs' visuospatial deficits are not related to ethnic and cultural factors.